CV Summary

MSc. Yassine Moustanjidi is an architect and urban designer. He is a practitioner and a researcher on the issues of urban sustainability and mega-urbanization. He has been part of the international research project “Future Megacities: Energy and climate efficient structures in urban growth centres” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), which conducted action-research in nine future megacities around the world (2009-2014).

Yassine has worked intensively on the challenges of urbanization within the MENA region, China, and Europe, and actively participated in a variety of International conferences, competitions and workshops on the topic. He also took part in regional leadership programs such as the “US-Middle East Partnership Initiative” in Washington, D.C and “Young Arab Leaders” in Kuala Lumpur.

Yassine is currently teaching and researching at the department of International Urbanism, University of Stuttgart, and is a PhD candidate working on the topic of cross-border urban governance in Singapore-Johor-Riau extended urban region.

Laue, F. (2012): Vertical Versus Horizontal: Constraints of Modern Living Conditions in Informal Settlements and the Reality of Construction. In: Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East: Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, p.111.

Co-Editing and Co-Authoring (selected):

2014 Co-editor and author of a publication Trialog-journal, issue on “Camp Cities”, University of Stuttgart/Chair of International Urbanism (Prof. Dr. P. Misselwitz), 2014

2013 “The Aleppo Archive – a place for the memory of urban history”, in collaboration with GIZ and Friends of the Old City of Aleppo Association, Stuttgart, 2013

Contact

University of Stuttgart
Institute of Urban Planning and DesignChair of International Urbanism